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Eric Walter Elst
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| Asteroids discovered: 3490 (as of July 2006—only a few unusual ones are listed here) |
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| 4486 Mithra[1] | September 22, 1987 | Apollo asteroid |
| 7968 Elst-Pizarro[2] | July 14, 1996 | also a comet |
| (15745) 1991 PM5 | August 3, 1991 | Amor asteroid |
| (21088) 1992 BL2 | January 30, 1992 | Amor asteroid |
| (52387) 1993 OM7 | July 20, 1993 | Amor asteroid |
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Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer.
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3000 discovered so far (85 of these having a co-discoverer).
Notable discoveries include the Apollo asteroid 4486 Mithra, the asteroid/comet 7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P/Elst-Pizarro), and more than 25 Trojan asteroids.
The asteroid 3936 Elst was named in his honour.
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